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- America, The Totalitarian State: Sheryl Attkisson Says, Cbs Honchos Ordered Me To Present A False Account Of Obama's Words On Whether Benghazi Was A Terrorist Attack
From Ace: As you remember, Obama denied repeatedly that Benghazi had been a terrorist attack, but eventually facts leaked out making this position untenable. He then asserted in his Denver debate with Mitt Romney that he had called it a terrorist...
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From the Astute Bloggers. Just remember, we can absorb a terrorist attack....
- Woodward's Incredible Book - Yeah, But Mr. Obama, What Country Are You Talking About?
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From Roger Simon: I don’t know about the rest of you, but I found Anne Kornblut’s report in the Washington Post — “Obama’s 17-minute, 2,500-word response to woman’s claim of being ‘over-taxed’” — to be deeply disturbing. Although I...
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Obama We Can Absorb Mass-Murder Committed Against Our Fellow Citizens
From Ace:
Barack Obama To Bob Woodward This Past July: "We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger."Go read the whole thing.
—Ace
From Woodward's new book, quoted in the Washington Post.
A little context here. The Obama and the leftist media will attempt to spin this as merely descriptive, and as a tribute to America's resiliency. After all -- we did survive 9/11, didn't we? (Well, actually, 2996 of us did not survive 9/11, but apart from them, we survived.)
This is merely Obama talking up America's capacity to endure, they will say.
But it's not. This is a meme that has been circulating on the left for quite a while, usually secretly and among themselves only, but sometimes, ill-advisedly, being pushed out into public as a trial balloon.
The idea, of course, is that America overreacted to 9/11, and 50,000 people die every year in car crashes, and we don't freak out about that, do we? No, we accept these as acceptable losses in the bigger picture (that is, we want to drive places) and we take the exchange. We drive, some of us will die. Sound bargain.
That's the killer notion here -- the idea of bargain. Of what is being exchanged for these deaths. In the case of automobile collisions, well, sure, we have mobility and freedom. That's something.
But the left is pushing this idea that we can safely "absorb" many new 9/11's with an eye towards getting us to "accept" the greater bargain they fatuously offer -- peace, and a general wind-down of post-9/11 security "overreactions" like the FBI tracking Muslims suspected of terrorist ties. If only we didn't overreact to the occasional mass-murder, we could go about our business without war, without increased security measures, without "Islamophobia," without the rest of it.
- America, The Totalitarian State: Sheryl Attkisson Says, Cbs Honchos Ordered Me To Present A False Account Of Obama's Words On Whether Benghazi Was A Terrorist Attack
From Ace: As you remember, Obama denied repeatedly that Benghazi had been a terrorist attack, but eventually facts leaked out making this position untenable. He then asserted in his Denver debate with Mitt Romney that he had called it a terrorist...
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Ace of Spades: CNN "Reporter" Fareed Zakaria Secretly Advises Obama But That's Not A Conflict of Interest Because We Said It's Not ConflictiN' iNtrests. Spinning furiously for Fareed is one Howard Kurtz, who previously worked at CNN with...
- Muslim Man Arrested In India With A Kilo Of Uranium "made In Usa"
From the Astute Bloggers. Just remember, we can absorb a terrorist attack....
- Woodward's Incredible Book - Yeah, But Mr. Obama, What Country Are You Talking About?
Image via WikipediaOn Afghanistan: Obama told Woodward in the July interview that he didn't think about the Afghan war in the "classic" terms of the United States winning or losing. "I think about it more in terms of: Do you...
- President Weirdo
From Roger Simon: I don’t know about the rest of you, but I found Anne Kornblut’s report in the Washington Post — “Obama’s 17-minute, 2,500-word response to woman’s claim of being ‘over-taxed’” — to be deeply disturbing. Although I...